ChatGPT
OpenAI's conversational AI assistant, launched in November 2022, which catalyzed the current generative AI boom by demonstrating the capabilities of large language models to a mainstream audience.
ChatGPT crossed 100 million weekly active users, with 39% of US adults having used it. A single ChatGPT query uses roughly 10x the electricity of a Google search. The launch of ChatGPT transformed the AI market from approximately $100 billion in 2022 to an estimated $244 billion in 2025. OpenAI's valuation reached $157 billion, making it the most valuable private AI company globally.
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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
A hypothetical form of AI that can understand, learn, and apply knowledge across any intellectual task at or above human level, rather than being specialized for specific tasks.
AI Compute
The computational resources — primarily GPU and TPU processing power — required to train and run AI models, typically measured in FLOP (floating-point operations) or GPU-hours.
Data Center
A facility housing computer systems and infrastructure used to process, store, and distribute data — increasingly built specifically for AI training and inference workloads.
Enterprise AI Adoption
The rate at which businesses integrate AI technologies into their operations, measured across functions like customer service, software development, marketing, and supply chain management.
Fine-Tuning
The process of further training a pre-trained AI model on a specific, smaller dataset to specialize it for a particular task or domain, requiring far less compute than training from scratch.
Foundation Model
A large AI model trained on broad data that can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks — examples include GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and Llama.
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